Thread 718646764

Still more immersive and impressive technologically than modern FPS slop. Truly perfection.

doubt it

>>718646838
Every time you shoot something happens in response. That's peak immersion.

>>718646764 (OP)
It's a classic. One thing that sets it apart from its contemporaries, and even apart from modern FPSes, is how cool all of the weapons are. I've never enjoyed reloading in a video game more than in Perfect Dark.

Fucking yes, wasted hours upon hours playing with bros back in the day.
NOW there is a pc port with MOUSE aim, there is no excuse anymore zoomies

>>718647056
2000 actually.
>>718647254
Hell yeah dude, I recorded those webms almost ten years ago on a Dazzle DVC 100.

still the GOAT FPS

>>718647340
you got more? I only have that one saved

>>718647396
Here's one showing off the animations and blood effects.

I'm the biggest PC advocate of anybody, but I will absolutely throw up my hands for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. Specifically PD. It did more in first person shooters than any other shooter on the market at the time combined. They just kept adding shit up until shipping. Shit never even heard of, like counter-operative.

The combat simulator I spent complete months in with my buddy. Shit talking NPCs, dozens of weapons that all have dual modes, disarming, locational damage, etc

I remember wishing it had came to PC because I was used to the stable frame rates of Half-Life and keyboard/mouse. The only thing I could possibly mark against it. Other than that, it reigns supreme. Even as a obsessed Half-Life fan, it doesn't hold a candle to the gameplay of PD.

>>718647124
Same. Cyclone, Mauler, Magsec, all sexy shmexy.

>Disarmed NPC with his hands up
>"I'm just doing my job!"

me too...BANG

You could play the entire game co-op or with an optional AI companion, framerate be damned. And while I don't have footage of it, there's the mode where player 2 can possess an enemy in the level and act against player 1.

Fact: only 35% of the game is playable without the 4MB RAM PAK.

>>718647864

First time I got it was from Blockbuster. They didn't have any expansion packs to rent out (all were rented out). I still had a blast the entire weekend with my friend from school. When we went to take it back, they had one in stock, so mom decided to re-rent it and rent the XP too. It was like a totally different fucking game. Blew my goddam mind.

had some cool weapons; laptop gun, alien guns (xray sniper that shot through walls blew my mind)
I can still hear the cyclone reload

>>718647864
It still rules without the expansion pack in Multiplayer and with bots.

>>718647056
This one is different. It's not like Halo or Fortnite or any of those lame casualfests. This was the real deal. My friend and I used to have dark agents in multiplayer and there was nothing more intense than the temporary alliance that happened when one of those motherfuckers were in the room.

>>718647864
It turns out the game never needed the expansion pak after all. Just some cleaner code and a modern compiler to improve performance.
https://archive.org/details/perfect-dark-usa-rev-1-mod

>>718648725

Tell me yall did the "zombie" mode of having them use unarmed only? That shit was rough. Respawning and screen still blurred from getting punched to death (that bug was removed on xbox arcade port).

>>718646764 (OP)
still the best fps humanity ever made.

>>718647056
you can emulate it with proper mouse and keyboard controls and it's one of the best fps games period.

>>718649514
No need
There's a PC source port
https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

>>718646764 (OP)
>start first mission
>open door into building, unavoidable guard standing right beyond it, staring directly at the door waiting for me to enter, instant aggro and the entire rest of building telepathically alerted at the same time
>gun him down, run through rest of building gunning down all the other enemies in 2 minutes flat
>enter room with woman villain "you won't kill me, you don't have the guts"
>put a bullet in her head, Game Over screen
possibly the most overrated game of all time. boring, easy, stupid AI, punished for doing what the game tells you you're supposed to do

>>718650383
>and the entire rest of building telepathically alerted at the same time
Not true.

>>718650438
is true. as soon as I entered the next room the other guards were already shooting at me.

>>718650383
>punished for doing what the game tells you you're supposed to do
but it tells you not to kill her

Just beat Goldeneye on 00 Agent this week. I'll eventually get to playing Perfect Dark on Perfect Agent.

>>718650383
Zoomies...

>>718650596
>you saddled the wrong horse

>>718650680
what, angry I'm better at the game than you are?

>>718650595
If you rush way quicker than anyone would on their first attempt, then there's one enemy on the staircase who will spot you as you're coming down. But the guy standing in front of the door switch will literally never activate without seeing you or hearing you in the same room.

>>718648926
Uh, well yeah. People would be shocked how powerful and capable old consoles really are. You could probably run a ps3 game on a ps2 if you really put enough time into coding it well. That's the thing though, almost every game in existence is coded very inefficiently. You should check out Kaze, the shit he was able to accomplish on an N64 is mindblowing, and he only got better throughout the years. He pretty much simplified SM64 to mental illness levels of coding. I didn't realize how complex game development and hardware really is when you dig deeper

https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE?si=LOUV2LpvUos7zo29

Levels too short because of how instricily detailed the objectives had to be.

Would love a bunch of levels that are just standard FPS key hunting or slaughter maps to see how they would play in PD.

>>718650923
>no you went too fast! STOP HAVING FUN
moviegame railroading. don't punish me for playing the game.

>>718650383
She is a main character. If you kill her the story can't continue.

Do you complain that killing main characters results in a game over in Metal Gear Solid games?

>>718651025
Being spotted by one enemy on a staircase because you run up to him is not punishing the player unfairly.

>>718650801
You got a game over.

>>718651064
you kill her later in the story.
>just stand there like a cuck while she insults you and calls you a coward, whilst you as the player have full capacity to kill her
if this happened in a game released today it would be mocked as 'woke' and 'anti-gamer'.

>>718651094
having to sit outside staring at the moon for an arbitrary amount of time until the game decides it's safe to enter (and you as the player have no way of knowing outside of trial and error) is unfair. don't try and pretend it isn't.

>>718651135
because I sequence-broke, because the devs didn't expect me to actually play the game with the mechanics they gave me. bad programming. "you saddled the wrong horse"

>>718651327
>having to sit outside staring at the moon for an arbitrary amount of time until the game decides it's safe to enter (and you as the player have no way of knowing outside of trial and error) is unfair.
I would ask if you're genuinely retarded, but it's a rhetorical question at this point.

>>718651064
and I don't play metal gear solid. snoy moviegame garbage, also massively overrated. at least the SNES games are fun. MGS 3 I think has 20 hours of cutscenes or some crazy shit like that.

>>718651403
your words exactly, dumb nigger. "you went in too fast, the game spawns an enemy on the staircase to catch you out for playing too quickly". fuck that.

>>718651498
Some enemies actually walk patrol routes, you happen to encounter this one on a staircase if you run through the level. You would've encountered him a few seconds later anyway since he's on the same path. Literally too dumb for video games.

>>718647812
heh as I kid I was ruthless towards the goons but I've gotten soft in my old age. They are just goons doing their 9-5 and Jo Dark is a professional pyschopath.

>>718650942
because games are developed under time crunch and tight budgets with limited knowledge of the platform. Kaze had none of those --arguably he has no real budget but he's getting paid monthly via patreon.

>>718649514
Hacks like these never work well, and you "feel" it.

Native port is always best.

>>718651568
>sit out side, trial and error wait for him to not be looking at the door as you walk through it
bad programming. sorry. when the option is "sit for 20 minutes to try and sneak through the level" or "blast your way through in 5", only a moron picks the former. This is a common thread in bad stealth games, where it's quicker to ignore the stealth and just go guns-blazing. In good stealth games like Thief, the games are balanced around NOT being detected and as a result it will take you longer to complete levels if you are (and often you end up getting yourself killed anyway). If players can easily beat levels whilst ignoring core gameplay mechanics, your programming and scenario design is bad. simple as. I don't give a shit about how many contextual animations are in the game, that's not GAMEPLAY. That was the core of my complaint. And as you highlighted, a component of it is RNG as well (the guard spawning in a part of his route, and where he is in relation to his route by the time you choose to enter the room you cannot see into beforehand).
Now observe as your midwit brain misreads the previous sentence as "I cannot predict where the guard will go because hurr durr too dumb to follow patrol pattern".

>>718651673
"you are too scared to kill me"
don't put that line in if you don't want me to blast her. simple as. don't insult me and expect me to take it. this ain't Spec Ops The Line

>>718652006
nobody cares about speedrunning or the amount of estrogen you're taking

>>718652006
Imagine having a mental breakdown because you can't read and because you ran head first into an enemy.

Is this ACfag? He sounds like him (retarded) but I didn't know Perfect Dark was one of his targets

>>718652072
>walking through a door is speedrunning
projection

>>718652113
killed the enemy* as the game instructed me to

>>718652195
Which enemy are you specifically crying over?
>as the game instructed me to
Carrington literally says in the intro cinematic not to kill her.

>>718652451
you're the one crying I don't love your overrated kusoge, friendo.

>>718652717
Actually I'm just shocked someone this dumb can manage to type a message that makes its way to the internet. Computers and especially phones became way too retard friendly.

>>718652801
I know, and yet somehow you're here. pretty amazing. I suggest you try playing some good stealth games, maybe you'll develop some taste.

>>718652839
I don't even want to imagine the braindead level gameplay you partake in when playing Thief. Quicksaving every single step? Definitely.

>>718652909
whatever helps you sleep at night, lol

>retarded anon plays a game for 30 seconds
>fails and dies and instead of figuring out what he did wrong he immediately has a melty, quits and writes paragraphs about the 30 seconds of gameplay he experienced

thats like failing to steal the bike in san andreas, turning the console off and sperging on /v/ for 30 minutes on why san andreas is the shittiest game ever

i still dont get how this board is the dumbest place on this fucking planet but here we are. I fucking hate this stupid place so much

>>718651327
You're suppose to be an agent, you lack the tact of one.

>>718646764 (OP)
I was so disappointed this game didn't become the standard for all FPS games going forward, it was so damn good

>>718646764 (OP)
How come no other FPS used the level select and mission/difficulty formula this and goldeneye had?

>>718651957
Yeah, Kaze can spend years codemaxxing while most games get crunched at some point just to get the damn thing out.

I love Perfect Dark so much. The music, sounds, characters, graphics... they soothe my soul.

>>718650383
And the game mission log literally tells you not to kill her
You are a certified retard

>>718646764 (OP)
20 fps sllideshow though

>>718647221
>NOW there is a pc port with MOUSE aim
doesn't that kinda break the game since it was really balanced around the NS64 controller?

>>718656631
The 2010 GE reboot does that I think.

>>718658371
Broadly speaking yes, but missions on Perfect Agent difficulty are still pretty damn hard. I can't remember how many times I needed to retry the hostage rescue at Carrington Institute

GET HER!

>>718646764 (OP)
would've been a great game if not for gadgets and objectives. Shooting feels nice, but there's no way you would know what to do without a guide. I don't know how journous gave it 10/10, it's really unintuitive

>>718649514
Mouse and kb surely make it too easy

>>718659734
>there's no way you would know what to do without a guide
Every level has a mission briefing that explains what you're supposed to do

>>718646764 (OP)
It blows my mind this game came out a quarter of a century ago and modern games still play catch up with it.

>>718659956
literally one sentence for missions that last eternities, You must have beaten on easy only where objectives are easier or just looked up a guide, no other option

>>718660173
Playing on easy removes objectives, other problem solved.

>>718652006
>be amateurish assassin and just stand there letting vries blab all day then getting salty enough to blast her
Bro you failed the retard test

>>718659734
I beat it on every difficulty plus knives (stabbing only) with enemies maxed out in custom when i was 12. Are you dumber than 12 year old me?

>>718646764 (OP)
It didn't click with me when I tried it with mouse and keyboard a few years ago. GoldenEye was a lot more fun for whatever reason. Maybe I should give it another go

>>718646764 (OP)
>>718649278
>brits hate guns
>make the best shooters
???

>>718650383
For your sake, I hope you're only pretending to be retarded.

>>718660691
>it didn't click on me playing in a layout it wasn't designed for

Wow.

>>718660173
Not gonna lie I did struggle with this game as a kid but eventually I just tried slapping Casandra and it worked after failing a bunch. The levels after were even harder as a kid attaching random CDs to wall data points. At some point I just realized that whatever extra items were in my inventory were usually meant to be thrown on Computers and just slowly read the Mission log. I was really good at the game though, I made my friend cry because I kept killing him through the walls with the farsight gun over and over in multiplayer.

>>718659631
Why...me?

>>718663075
>see, suffering is part of the experience

>>718646764 (OP)
>rare game
>perfection
Pick one. Rare was never good.

>>718663175
Compared to the games of today they were masterpieces

>>718647124
I never understood why they called it the laptop gun. It doesn't look like a laptop in any of its forms.

>>718667053
But it's really comfortable to put on your lap

>>718667053
Nah nah that's what laptops will look like in the future world of 2023

>>718647643
https://github.com/n64decomp/perfect_dark

You can't make accusations like that without evidence. I ASHume you have some.

>>718648725
Halo 1 was better but it broke into mainstream so midwits hate it.